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Singing Bird PlateProducer / Artist: Nurten Şahin
Material: Çini Ceramic
Dimensions: D 12" H 1"
Nurten & Ahmet H. Sahin - Calligraphy Meets Cini
The great 20th century cini master Ahmet Sahin one day told Henry Glassie, professor of folklore and Co-Director of Turkish Studies at Indiana University and the author of a monumental study of Turkish folk art titled Turkish Traditional Art Today that the author should write a book about Turkish art with Ahmet Sahin as its hero. According to almost every student of Turkish ceramics, Ahmet Sahin, born in 1907, single-handedly kept the art of fine cini-making alive not only in Kütahya, but in entire Turkey and arguably in the entire Islamic world. For much of the 20th century, when cini-makers were either closing their ateliers, or succumbing to mass production, he alone kept producing masterpieces of cini and training students who were interested in the art form. Thanks to his efforts and lifetime of work, by the 1980s a vibrant and prolific generation of cini masters, including his children and grand-children had started producing high quality cini items again. By his death in 1996, the number of ateliers in Kütahya, which had dwindled down to single digits, was back up to a few hundreds according to some sources. Masters taking different artistic directions were producing works in different styles, perhaps in richness and quality rivalling 16th century Anatolian ceramic production for the first time in four-hundred years. |
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| Product Code: | HO452000NS50 |
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